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The White Ribbon
Directed by
Michael Haneke
R
2009
2h 24m
Drama
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Mystery
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7.8
85%
79%
7.5
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Strange events happen in a small village in the north of Germany during the years before World War I, which seem to be ritual punishment. Who is responsible?
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Cast of The White Ribbon
Christian Friedel
The School Teacher
Ernst Jacobi
The School Teacher as an Old Man (voice)
Leonie Benesch
Eva
Ulrich Tukur
The Baron
Fion Mutert
Sigmund
Ursina Lardi
Marie Louise
Burghart Klaußner
The Pastor
Steffi Kühnert
The Pastor's Wife
Maria Dragus
Klara
Josef Bierbichler
The Steward
Rainer Bock
The Doctor
Susanne Lothar
The Midwife
Roxane Duran
Anna
Eddy Grahl
Karli
Levin Henning
Adolf
Leonard Proxauf
Martin
Gabriela Maria Schmeide
The Steward's Wife
Janina Fautz
Erna
Detlev Buck
Eva's Father
Birgit Minichmayr
Frieda
The White Ribbon Ratings & Reviews
The Atlantic
Ed Koch
Suffice it to say that I don't understand the rave reviews that this picture received, and I was not a happy camper when I left the theater.
The New Republic
Stanley Kauffmann
As for Haneke's handling of the material, his directing is immaculate. Every moment is the product of a penetrating mind and a steady talent.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Calvin Wilson
The White Ribbon is a stark, contemplative and hauntingly brilliant film.
Detroit News
Tom Long
Writer-director Michael Haneke doesn't pull any punches, but then he doesn't throw any wild ones, either. His filmmaking shows precisely the sort of obsession with control that the movie itself is denouncing. Interesting, you've got to admit.
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
A disquieting feeling of apprehension is made palpable in The White Ribbon.
Washington Post
Ann Hornaday
The White Ribbon lunges hungrily for serious art-film credibility. Don't be fooled.
MovieFreak.com
Sara Michelle Fetters
It is a haunting parable with no real beginning and no easy conclusion, and like life's memories it is the meaning behind events that linger long past recriminations and accusations faded into the dark.
Philadelphia City Paper
Sam Adams
The visuals lend an air of eerie calm to the disturbing series of attacks that begin to infect the town's serene and self-righteous surface.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
The White Ribbon doesn't resonate at all. The filmmaker's doom-laden view of humanity -- that we are all unredeemably awful creatures, easily swayed to do dastardly things -- oozes with contempt.
At the Movies
A.O. Scott
I don't question Haneke's craft: it's his ideas that get under my skin.
Chicago Reader
J. R. Jones
There's no denying this is a coldly commanding tale in which Haneke's signature obsessions simmer quietly as subtext before bursting into the open in the final reels.
Movie Retriever
Brian Tallerico
With some of the most striking imagery of the year, Haneke's film is not easy to dissect and even less so to shake off when it's over.
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
Haneke's success in maintaining tension is especially impressive in that he does it despite a loose narrative and the necessity of juggling a dozen characters.
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
The ends remain loose in The White Ribbon. But that lack of closure is thrilling.
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips
Watching the daisy chain of events is akin to auditing a seminar on incipient fascism taught by a master filmmaker who speaks in a steely murmur, confident of his research.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
I wonder if Haneke's point is that we grow so disturbed by danger that we will surrender freedom -- even demand to. Do we feel more secure in an orderly state? Many do.
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
It's an M. Night Shyamalan movie with a PhD. Or maybe an MA.
USA Today
Claudia Puig
Its austere gloom feels oppressive and monotonous, undercutting its psychological impact.
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
A severe and eerily beautiful German-language drama by Michael Haneke...
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
Set in a German village on the eve of World War I, The White Ribbon treats a dozen characters so coldly they could be rats in a maze.
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